Arkham Horror

Arkham Horror is a board game one of my friend's roomates owns, and he has told me that it is one of the greatest board games he has ever played. I decided to see why he thinks it is so good by looking up what it's about.

The board is made up of locations in HP Lovecraft's fictional city of Arkham during 1926. The actual story behind the board game is that there are strange things happening and you're an investigator that has come to try and find out what's behind it all. The "strange things" are actually portals opening into other dimensions that are spawning creatures that will attack you. The way that you kill these enemies is by rolling dice. If you roll the right amount of successes (successes being a five or six) then you kill that monster and keep it as a monster token. The way to win is to close all the portals that open up to other dimensions. To do this you have to explore that portal then attack it. However, whenever a portal opens you place a token on the Old One (an extremely powerful Lovecraft monster). If you get a certain amount of tokens on the Old One, then it is summoned and you have to fight it. If you have to fight the Old One, you are probably going to lose. Although if you do manage do defeat the Old One, then you win. If you couldn't tell, this game is extremely hard to win. The game has also been around since 1987, so if a game can stand the test of time like that, it's probably really good.

This seems like an amazing game that is extremely intricate. It has a wide variety of items and spells at the investigators disposal, and the fact that you're working with people instead of against them on a board game is kind of new. Usually, you're playing against people in board games. I would very much like to play this game and see if it lives up to my expectations.